Tag: offline

If you’ve used Chrome, you’re probably familiar with the minigame that shows up when you can’t connect to the Internet. The dinosaur mascot will start running. You need to evade other dinosaurs and cacti until your Internet reconnects. This game has now been ported to Android TV inside of a WebView. It loads the game […]

Hulu, one of the large streaming services that have launched in recent years, has added two high profile features this month that should help it better compete with Netflix and improve the experience for more users. Offline playback will allow users to cache certain TV shows on their device so they can play them back […]

The latest version of Netflix, now rolling out to Android phones and tablets, adds offline viewing support. Like other apps, this allows the video to be cached locally, securely, to the user’s device so it can be played back later without an Internet connection. It’s a useful feature when taking a long plane trip, or […]